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ne larolma watchman vol ix third series n02 mr veuxox n v march 4 1878 ii n watchman 1 wonder if chronic tctiritv of niiad is nut tlie cause of the i n ai*fed uui shrivelled and sluggish con '';;,,:, wc often over-heat others deci k ivch expressing thai there is nothing j n tliu country worth writing or talking â– ... i lie would not think so ifthey could rend iii a letter in the new vork tri lniiie or *'< thserver written by havard j'avloror ireutens prime from the limits nf old rowan ilelieve me these men | u vi charmed you with letters from lauds possessing "â– â€¢â– â€¢â– â€¢â€¢ , * â– â– â€¢*' interest of ours moieover it taylor ami prime could ind nothing i worth writing about it would lie a sure ovidence that their tame 1s letter-writers was completely unde served uv all the laws of literature they kiiouiii in lhat case resign their pens nnd their laurels to somebody else the iniit who cannot indite a beautiful sonnet iiddrcsscd to even a butterfly or a snail tin essayist who cannot enliven you even upon so trite a themo us dogs anil cats iln epistolary correspondent who could not write a letter worth reading from one f the sand-hanks in mid-ocean any writer in short who has not talent suf ficient to writ anything no matter mall ami insignificant in the hea i ns above tht earth beneath or the wa ters under the earth is no writer at all \ ante could take a horse-hack journey through this dull and uninteresting re gion t<>-<lay ami deliver a most faciuating lecture upon it in llostou next week lur state geologist prut kerr would he only too happy to get up here and look around awhile ami tell you what treasures you have under your feet and oh if dickens were only alive couldn't he paint these rowan characters so life like you would have to laugh and cry get angry and pleased all on tin same page '! don'l till me this is men fancy ami bosh what did dickens find lo write about in the back-alleys the tumble down tenement lanes the hospitals the pii.ii houses and cellars ol tin scorned squalljd ami poverty-stricken quarters of london .' what did cervantes lind in au old crazy loader ofchivalric romances ami a big.hclliod spanish peasant ! what did addison write about but these same glories of earth ami sea and sky these same beauties ol nature we fjaze upon with stupid uneon erii f what i<l shakes peare describe but copies alter thr adam i tie model these same men and women vmi daily associate with ? what supplied the ceaseless liver of elotpience ill which s t coleridge and george lladgcr hab itually conversed but the very subjects \\.- are accustomed to regard as trivia hinl lljiw in thy of notice ? ( oicridge the noted talker of england could ente tain and delight ins friends after dinner for hour and hours it was ijne unbroken stream of conversational eloquence aud absorbing interest it cn gitwscd and capt j vat etl all hearers flow ing freeh forth from the exhaustless stores ofhis vast ami varied learning then there was the magical potency of that superior tact of delivery so rate n en dovv ment iu a garrulous man as to be h - lined as nothing less i ha ii genius and of riit'b enrapturous control over the eager crowd that hung upou the charmed lips as to sway them like tbe sceptre of â€¢>. monarch and what demosthenes was to ihe athenians in public assemblies he was to the english over their convivial tables he could talk folks into anything binge ibidger was the coleridge of north arolina eminent as be was at the bar his powers in common conversa tion were uot less remarkable thau liis forensic genius meeting you on the street or in bis office at any time when not pr occupied by business it was won derful bow this old man eloquent was listened loin silent awe how fascinating was his discourse on every theme and oc casion how his most learned legal asso ciates paid him the deference of attention as natuialh as if it were his birth-right and how impossible il was for everybody not to accord it to him now ihis menial activity of coleridge an.l itadger was irrepressible and was bound to have vent in lingual expression aw surely as the fountains beneath the hills must burst forth and roll sparkling down thu declivities to gladden the heart i>t man and beast and to clothe their blest shores w ith rich carpets of luxuriant verdure addison was no talker but it was no nn ue trouble for him iii write :; paper for the spectator every few ays than it is for an ordinary man to eat his breakfast the simple and genial style of his essays which will evei he the envy and the pat tern ef young authors soon caused each issue of that pel i.n lical to he awaited with pleasurable and eager expectancy it was equally bought alter and perused by the titled and aristocratic men of leisure ami by the clubs of restless and intellect ual literal ti it created a fashion and a ram for periodical essays and other com petitive enterprises such as the guar dian the itamblor and the adventu rer sprang up us fruit from the seed planted bv ihe pure-minded ami inimita ble essayist dickens came upon the stage of author ship when the public mind was sated with blood-aml-thundcr romances glut led to its till with thu johnsonian style of novel w rit ing ami the ciceronian train ing of sentences when it longed for orig inality both of manner and n atei ial he slaked that feverish thirst for a change from the hidden depths of a fountain so . xhattstless and delicious that wo cannot rqieak ofhis work onlj i t terms of glow - ing enthusiasm and unfeigned respect well do i nineiiiber my first and acci dental acquaintance with this magician an old ragged copy of nicholas xickle bv minus the title-page and //<<â€¢ name of the author happened to fall into my hands h hen \ vva8 a iâ€ž,y | had read such books as ivanhoe and charlotte temple,"aiul the children of the ab bey anil thai ideas of warsaw and handy andy and the three span iards till i thought all novels must be cut out alter one or the other of these patterns a perusal of the mysterious old volume fairly roused nie into cc-ti t'ies it it possible i said to myself while alternately laughing und weeping over the fortunes of nicholas and sinik , that there is a w liter of such originalit > whose a i nr i do not know .'" yon mav be nre l never ceased enquiring till i found out who wrote that book nor till i had found ami read hi othei works un der ft feeling of hero worship for the great pen-painter of england when he died a dearfriend sat by my bedside wheu i was si>1i uiitl read to nm the account of his decease and i listened with moisten ed eyes anil bated breath for dickens was kin to the whole world a king once beheld from his palace window a fellow lying on the grass in the distance leading a book and laugh ing hooraing and cutting up enongb cu rious antics to excite the suspicion that he was demented summoned into tlie royal presence and asked what book lie was leading lie replied don quixote his demonstrations proved tbat was the book in waa not sent to tbe mad-house how many have read and been affected by that book in tbe same way just thirty years ago 1 first heard my j grandfather read aloud to the family the foreign letters of ireiitthis in the new | york observer since that tlate i have i lead many hundreds ofhis letters â€” some from little hamlets in onr own country â€” till interesting alike would that letter-writers might come to tbe south and excite interest and in fuse life into our dear old land tbe pen is m igh tier than tlie sword e p ii prom the n y observer national museum at tiie smithsonian institution by mlts lucy e sankoud tbe national museum was established by the government in 1842 and consist ed of the specimens collected by the wilkes exploring expedition it was transfer red from the patent office to the care of the smithsonian institution in 1858 it has been increased by all the collections made by the exploring parlies of the war navy treasury and interior departments and those of tbe smithsonian institution a i the close of tbe centennial thirty-four of tl|c governments and colonies there represented sent it their choicest exhibits many series of the geology mettallurgy ethnology aud general resources of those nations arc complete several state ex hibits aud several private collections were also sent the centre building of the smithsonian with its two stories and gal leries and the west wing and gallery is full the basement and huge armory building ate crowded from floor to roof with unboxed specimens prof baird assistant secretary and in part creator of the museum says we have speci mens enough now to cover nine times the space we have and are receiving at the rate often boxes daily for many years the smithson fund was inure than half j spent in caring for the museum it i on ly within the last two years that il has been fully relieved of that expense it is oiÂ»ou and free to the public from 0 a.m to y c m it is urged that the government should provide room for and take care of i it ; separate it from the smithsonian in stitute and make it iti fact tbe national musoum tlie centre building is devoted lo ani inals iuhj*birda and stones u tho ta | ble that runs through the centre is a croc odile from florida 11 feet long and oppo site a walrus from near the north pole of about the same length there too is the i clyptodon with its bony armor !Â» feet long the longest uow found it about one foot a cast of tlie himalayan tortoise i feet wide and 8 long from india now extinct the cast of the skeleton and of the restored gigantic irish elk now ex tinct it seems to have lived ill europe as early as tlie tertiary period cast of a kangaroo lizard 25 feet long hind legs 15 feet forearms 1 feet â€” found in new jer sey tlie cast ofthe macatherluni 15 feet long in a ease arc two musk oxen now extinct in the east but found rarely in northern america a small and hornedao inuil with a dense covering of long silky h lir ; also auroeks or european bison which seem to have existed before the mammoth pliny anil seneca speak of it it would be extinct but the russian government by strict laws preserves a i la i.i there are 50,000 specimens of fish the saw-fish has a body not unlike a shark aboul h feel long but the nose extends 4 feet like the blade ofa sword with strong and trcnchani teeth oil each side this easily saws lisli iu two and indeed severe ly wounds a whale the devil-fish has been considered fabulous but in 1873 one attacked a fishing smack throwing its arms across it the jirms were cut aiul were 3q l'i it jn length the one in the museum baa eight units of rt fept in length w ith suckers on the arm there are 7x!,0(m birds there are eggs not so huge as a pea and one from mada gascir vak inches long a inches iu larg est circumference capacity it pints r i 150 hens eggs there aie 500,000 insects j the suscan meteorite brought from i arizona weighing i t<>0 lbs prof baird ! considers oue ofthe wonders of the mu i . scum in tlie we>t wing tire some of the cen tennial presents the lambeth copy of q ie of the pedestals of the prince albert memorial ; u b dirooting the onward course of america ; live figures of heroic size and a bison ; the term cotta pulpit and iomt copied from palestine covered wiih very finely carved illustrations of our saviour 5 life | a terra copy also of ( jet lisemane from palest juo i each face a study in a glass case is ancient roman and poinpeiian pottery and vases and pitchers from cyprus from gen ccsnola i the second story of the central build ing devoted t.i ethnology ; in which there are 50,000 specimens there is but little of the popular element here nine chi nese figures in costume of the different ranks the haidah indians excel all other aborigines from them a painted house front carved pillars and high and dry on a shelf a dug-out canoe jo ft by 8 ft with two indians in costume from central alaska is a coat of armor plated in chinese coins proving commerce lie twecn the two countries here is a bolt to which columbus was chained in st domingo and a part ofthe first steamboat egypt has some heavy stone cuttings casts of statues to isis and osiris and a a small sphinx also cast of cauopus stone and the best the cast of tain's stone six feet high two and a half broad and top arched it has a trilliugnal inscription ami is more perfect than the rosette stoue japan is very beautifully represented : the stirrup even ofa saddle is in the most elegant work lint this collection marks an era in the world's history it was a present to the president of the united states from the tycoon of japan in isbi when the first japanese embassy came wondering and wondered at there are relics of sir john franklin's and of the frobisher expedition that wintered at froblsher bay several hundred years ago there are many indians in costume and bona fide casts by mills of prisoners of war sit perched on the different cases to the number of 4 perhaps the most in teresting south american object is a hu man head prepared by the jivaro indians peru and held by the owner in much veneration this room is for the scholar it otters material to study man in every age and land here is a liner specimen of archaeological remains of north america â– than in any other museum and of tbe western esquimaux thaji in all other museums in the world ( f the stone age : there are many relics from the grottoes and caves and caverns in tlie line-stone rocks of europe indian graves in the island of omotepee lake nicaragua have i been found between successive volcanic formations aud the rifled content are here there are heaps of extinct shell fish along ! our coast remains of feasts in long gone i ages and iu the jovial time many a knife was lost and here they are the pre historic inhabitants of unaloska of whom the natives have no tradition even the ancient inhabitants of new zealand and australia the pre-hlstoiic age of japan i are all represented by their implements here the stone objects found all over j the earth aud strangely alike are to-day | used by the inhabitants of terra del i fuego and the pai utes archadogists j divide the stone age into palteolitbic old stone and neolithic new stone age in the old stone ages the stones were merely chipped or flaked the chipped series chiefly comprises arrow and spear-heads cutting and scraping tools saws perfora tors and digging implements they were made in this country of bomstonc jasper chalcedony ami quart in europe of flint they are triangular leaf-shaped pointed sharply rough and ugly in the neolithic or new stone age the stone is ground often polished and some times ornamented tho perforators and arrow tips finely and sharply pointed ; there are hammers chisels adzes axes mortars pestles wedges and digging tool all of stone from peru arc oval or horse collar shaped and some of them carved objects weighing four lbs each ; they are puzzles to archaologists in europe and america hut the pipes were tho most remarkable of all sumo of them are so skillfully executed that modern artist find no little difficulty iu reproducing them they are smill but in form of animals birds and human heads tho i national museum has the tincst calumet pipe ever discovered it represents a , bird with a strongly curved beak per j haps an eagle which stands on a high ' pedestal showing in front of it an inverted human face the bowl rises from the back of the bird from the more recent native inhabitants of new zealand but made with these stone implements is a very handsome palm wood box a lady's glove box in size carved in perfect scrolls ami dots used by ladies of rank to keep feathers in 5 also the prow ofa war canoe very well carved herodotus tells us that 1 c 520 a tribe in thrace lived in dwellings built on platforms supported by piles driven in the water and connected to the land by narrow bridges it has been found by recent search that the habit of erecting buildings in the lakes was widely spread over europe probably as protection against wild beats iii the museum is an j idi'td representation of one of those lake i villages find buna fide lacustrine relics of horn and bone and flax and vegetable products as found in the lakes also an ideal representation of an ancient village in cleft of rocks flint horn and bone ' implements and ornaments from the eaves , of dordogue and sabttre also flint imple i ments from other caves nd from deu 1 mark and great britain here too is a cast of th.h bone of con tention the neanderthal skull in the gravelly loam af neanderthal grotto two feet below the surface some work men found and threw out a human skeleton it would have been lost to science had . not prof fuhlrott seen and saved a part of it it had a pant marten by experts ' who decided it to be of an ordinary height very powerful bodily but with slight i brain prof huxley thinks it the most ' ape-like discovered but concludes it is not the connecting link between man and the ape stewart's hotel for women it is now announced that the enterprise started by the late a t stewart tbe ex tensive hotel for working women is to be opened about tho middle of this month it is said to have been the original purpose of mr stewart to build on a large scale tenement houses 011 a plan which be con sidered tin improvement on mr peabody's tenements lie subsequently changed the plan and started the working men's hotel project this magnificent building which cov ers the block on fourth avenue between till and id streets contains 502 sleeping rooms and eight reception rooms besides extensive parlors and dining rooms the whole building is heated with steam lighted with gas made on the premises and watered by an artesian well there is a library of 5000 volumes and every convenience by way of desks and writing materials the building surrounds a large court finely paved in the centre of which will rise a superb fountain forty feet high at the four corners of the fountain curb are bronze candelabra sup porting ornamental lamps it is stated that the regular charge for boarders according to the present plan will be s<i per week and the maxima 10 this would place its comforts out ofthe reach ofa large portion of the young wo men who are without homes but it was not designed as a charity but to provide a pleasant home for respectable women en engaged in the liner mercantile pursuits together with artists teachers and stu dents a limited number of transient guests women who have occasion to come alone to the city will be accommodated at ordinary hotel charges although this leaves a class and the most needy un provided for we hope that the opening of this establishment may prove such a suc cess and be so beneficial in its operation as to incite philanthropists to devise more liberal things for the homeless working women of new york tiie pope's soul players have been offered in roman catholic churches all over the world foi the repose ofthe pope's soul it is strange that any christian should be in doubt about the soul of a good dead man the pope was one of the best men who ever sat in tin chair lie had ids faults he was very inconsistent for an infalli ble person he made many and great mi takes but he was not a great criminal monster like some of his predecessors as the church goes he was an excellent man and died in the odor of sanctity if any roman catholic has left behind him a fair representation for godly living the late pope certainly has but the church is praying for the repose of his soul the roman catholics arc sure the pope has not gone to glory at present and they are praying that it may bo well with him by-and-bv what is their idea of a future state and why do they pray for the souls of the pious dead ? their notion of a future stato is very far from anything revealed iu the holy scriptures the souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory the penitent thief on the cross believed and the lord assured him to-day shalt thou be with mo in paradise if the dying pope hail received an assurance according to his faith it would bo to-day thou shalt be in purgatory tlie pope and all his people believe that the souls of the faithful go into a stage of purification whore they must un dergo penitential purgatorial fires and wheu the last remains of sin have been by these pains purged away the soul is transferred to the abode of the blessed in glory the duration of this process of purgatory varies according to the num ber of sins to be purged and the number of masses said by the priests for the soul as these are said by the priests for pay it is evident that the length oftho purga tory varies greatly in individual eases for the pope these prayers are said by all the churches everywhere and by many of them with all possible pomp and cir cumstance we may therefore well bc liovo that the faithful will be sure of his speedy passage through these gloomy re gions into the brighter and better abode of the spirits of the just made perfect purgatory is an iuventfoaof the priests who make money out of it it is the grand engine by which the ignorant mul titude are held in subjection to men who aro supposed to have the power of deliv ering the soul from the torments of peni tential fires heel power of a darkey part ofa negro boy's work in cumber land mil is to build a fire every morn ing iu a large furnace the weather was cold a few days ago and after putting a match to the kindlings he crept into the furnace to get warm the door swung shut behind him and fastened the fire blazed up rapidly there seemed a certain ty of cremation for tho lad lie yelled but nobody heard him the flames be gan to scorch him and he was almost suffocated a despairing kick unhinged the door however and he crawled out singed anil scared i a sunday law in louisiana a louisana paper gives the following testimony to the beneficent working of a sunday law in that state as follows on tlie tirst sunday ef hist november | the ordinance of the police jury closing all places of business ea sundays and keeping them closed during the entire day lxicame a law throughout the parish the town councils of odelousas wash ington grand coteau and armaudville adopted the ordinance simultaneously with the police jury and thus for the first time iu our history st landry had a sun day law in the country its effects have been most beneficial heretofore planters found it all but impossible to get their employees to work saturdays anyhow they would come to town aud spend saturday in a general debauch and were but illy prepared to go to work on mon day now they spend saturday in town there is no inducement for them to re main over till sunday so they go home saturday evening and on monday are rested and prepared to go to work a a man may ride over our public highways all sunday now and not meet a drunken man six months ago he would have met them by the dozen even between this point and washington screaming whoop ing cursing yelling aud running races endangering the vehicle life and limb ot the quiet traveler iu opelousas the effect of this ordinance has been marked indeed previous to its adoption our streets were filled every sunday with a promiscuous crowd of idlers loafers and traders : some buying ; some selling some getting drunk and creating almost a pan demonium by their yells and screams of all days it was the busiest and requir ed the most aetivo and unceasing vigilance on the part of our town constable to pre vent violations of our town ordinances but what a change this ordinance has pit d need ! there are no crowds of loafers and idlers hanging about the streets no buying uo selliag no getting drunk no rows no arrests no work for the consta ble nor has this change affected busi ness in ( pelousas the least our commer cial houses are doing just as heavy a busi ness as they did before the ordinance went into effect people both black and white from the country instead of coming to town 011 sundays come in and transact their business on saturdays hence sunday is now what the christian dispensation intended it to be a day of rest nor does the present ordinance intend to affect it further than this it has no smack of the old blue laws of connnecti cut about it as some of our coteinporaries seemed to think at the time of its adop tion it forces no man to any peculiar ob servance of the sabbath it merely sus pends business that day and then leaves every man to spend the day as he sees fit and proper tiie government's credit unprecedented demand for united states bonds new york march 14 the stated de mand for government bonds from leading cities is steadily incensing since mon day orders have been received from cin cinnati amounting to 250,000 and equal ly large sales were made to financial in stitutions in cleveland chicago and st louis the orders from the west are generally divided into small amounts and are believed to be chiefly for invest ment by persons who have formerly de posited in savings banks a heavy deal er iu government securities states that within the last two or three days over 1,000,000 of bonds have been sent to boston and that correspondents wn t â€¢ heavy drafts upon wiving banks in that city during the last week for re-invest ment in government bonds some sav ings banks of this city are disposing of a portion of their mortgages to secure more available assets two of these institu tions invested yesterday 250,000 each in government securities at a single bank this dealer stated that over 10,000,000 worth of bonds changed hands last week in this city alone an amount unprecedent ed in any single week since the time of the placing of tho li per cents on the market a letter received yesterday from prom inent st louis bankers stated that there was a grow ing distrust of savings banks and of real estate securicties in the west the unusually low prices ofunited states bonds had stimulated tho demand prin cipally bridge re-built remarkable enterprise new bimnswit k n j march 14 the new wooden bridge across karitan river at this point was completed by the pennsylvania railroad company late last night and the first through train since saturday's fire passed over the river this morning the new structure is nine hun dred feet long and oust 200,000 and was put up by five hundred men iu little over four days ax act of kixdxess rewarded . in december l a young lady of cooperstown pa met on a railroad train a lady who was very ill and she kindly miuistered unto her takingoareof h rand accompanying her to her place tu desti nation when they parted the sick wo man ottered to reward the young 1-uly for her kindness and attention but she would take nothing the old woman wrote down the name and address nodding familiarly to her and said you will be paid some day the yonnglady nev er saw her strange acquaintance again but the sum of 90,000 has recently been bequeathed to her the old woman hail no relatives in this country and left all her money to the girl who had befriended her demand for the new silver dollar new york march 14 the first of the new silver dollars made their appearance ou wall street this morning being iu limited amount the supply was soon ex hausted the desire to obtain them as to kens being general and buyers pay iug a fraction above par in gold letter from salisbury correspondence of the raleigh observ#r."r salism nr x c march 0 1&j58 mkssrs editors where shall the uomo cratic state convention be held the executive committee which meets in raleigh 011 the 27th inst will fix the time and place the claims of salisbury are second to no place in the state we sup pose the cemmittee will not select raleigh for the reason the last state convention was held there then should it conclude to come west of raleigh we think salis bury is the place greensboro has had a convention since salisbury and charlotte is too near tho south carolina line st Â» then iu point of location salisbury has many advantages from all points west delegates will arrived by the w n c railroad salisbury has first-class hotels and good boarding houses its citizens are hospitable and will cordially welcome the convention we have a splended hall meroney's opera hall which we have no doubt the citizens will furnish free of charge to tho convention besides the hall we have one of the largest and best arranged court rooms in the state let the convention come to salisbury x thio is all true and well said let the convention be held here heaven's sweet missionary schenectady rnloa a growing flower was given to a sick girl in trying to take care of ii the fam ily made changes in their way of living first they cleaned a window that more light might come to its leaves then they would open the window that fresh nil might help the plant to grow next the clean window made the rest of the room look so untidy that they used to wash the floors and the walls and arrange tho fur niture more neatly this led the father of the family to mend a broken chair or two which kept bim at home several evenings after the work was done he stayed at home instead of spending his leiusure hours at the tavern and the money thus saved went to buy comforts for them all as the home grew attrac tive the whole family loved it better than ever befoie aud grew happier ami health ier with their flowers thus the little plant brought a blessing death ofa well known authoress new york correspondence baltimore sun the death on monthly in the neighbor ing new jersey village of norristown ofthe venerable miss maria j mcintosh deprives literary and social life in this country of a writer whose influence was always on the side of the lettered reliue nient sectional justice ami the purest of morals a daughter of the late general lachlan mcintosh of sunbury ga she came to new york when she was just passed her thirtieth year and since 1 â€¢*>{.'> has been the best native novelist of the appletons toting fair from the journal ot commerce woow.eaf x c feb 26 1878 editor of the journal of commerce a b and c wish to carry a cylindical log a and h walking abreast tote with a handspike while (' sustains the hind most end query at what point should the two former lift in order to secure a just distribution ofthe weight ? a reaper rcplg â€” if the log is of uniform dimen sions and weight and is exactly horizontal the handspike supported by the two must be just one-third the distance from the end at which they lift to give a uniform load to each of the three mutiny baltimore march â€” tlic en-w of the british hark gypsey queen hence for ncwrv ireland mutinied yesterday morn ing below sandy point alleging that the hark was uuseaworthy capt payne re turned to annapolis roads and signalled the naval academy for assistance when a lieutenant and a squad of marines was sent on board ami the crcw(ten in number including second mate and boatswain were arrested and placed in irons capt payne states that the vessel isseaworthly but the men who had received their ad vance wanted to leave the ship he will ship an additional erew to work the ves sel ami keep the mutinous oats in irons until his arrival in ireland where they will be tried for mutiny horseflesh eating far from declining has so increased in paris that last year 0,ltf horses asses and mules wen cut up for food in the capital then are up ward of sixty horsemeat shops besides many in provincial french cities a comparison of the 10,169 equine animals eaten in 1877 with the 2,192 of 1867 il lustrates the steady progress of hippopha gy st hilaire and his friends would no longer bave to give their horseflesh bou quets for the sake ul introducing this food many people now are glad enough to eat it jekj davis it is no uncommon thing te hear some one speak iu u sligutiug way of jeff davis there were a class i of blind partisans who hated him for different reasons and were always ready during the war to attribute every mishap to him since the war another set of hounds who always hold their noses te the windward and can see bo wisdom Â«â€¢ utility in defending those who bave no rewards to distribute shrug their shoul ders when his name is mentioned aud stand ready to acquiesce iu auy slander of his character rut wo aÂ»k where is a man in polities nt the present day wfcrt has shown such consideration for others as he f our great military cheiftaiu is dead but the statesman patriot and moral hero still lives morganton blade the romans have from time immemo rial wen addicted to playing in the lot tery the number of any distinguished personage upon his death there was a rush at all the royal lottery offices in the city to play the numbers of the late pop â€” 7,32,58,86 seven indicates the dato ofhis death 32 the length of bis pontifi cate 58 the pope himself and 86 the years of his life not ti single one of the above numbers was evolved hy the wheel ; nevertheless it is believed that they will wiu sooner or later and they will contin ue the favorites daring the remainder of the present year the government has ne objection having already reaped an unusually rich harvest from the popular indulgence in this belief coffee was served at the polls iu utica last tuesday the ladies of the various christian temperance association labored unceasingly in every ward serving re fresh ments to candidates and voters â€” now sandwiches now biscuits now cake now pie now crackers aud cheese always cof fee and never whi>key or beer at tho various polling places 5,725 cups of cof fee were handed to politicians aud voters during the day there was good order everywhere and very few oases of in toxication were reported by the olicc this isa temperance measure as novel as it is practical and the bonds continue ut rise and gold continues to lay down gold was to go up with a rush and imuiiis were to come down with a crash ou the passage of the silver bill so said the great new york dailies and gold won't go up and bonds won't come down and the great new york dailies are explaining why the explanations are all vary wei i in their way but the way is abpoi as valuable as the predictions ral ob the hiusboro recorder has presented to the people of the state the following splendid little chapter on our governor the people will respund to its every sen timent with a most hearty â€” amf.xk gov vance commands not only the ap proval but also the affections of the peo ple they love him because he is sincere ly good and honest as well as wise and great while out hunting during a late storm a texan encountered a herd of bewilder ed buffaloes numbering km grown ones and 40 calves the suow lay on the ground to the depth of oue loot he was alone but after several days hard work he secured the entire lot in a natural cor ral in the bend of a stream and proceed ing to the nearest town sold them tu an enterprising dealer for s-'hki the silver bill is not as bad now it is law as it was said to be by its enemies for instance the washington star op posed it and now it says 4 h is probable that whatevei else may happen front the silver hill it will stop the shrinkage of values and especially the downward tendency in real estate women have the mastery of color said sir joshua reynolds but when a woman wears a green skirt with a brown overdress and a purple necktie with a bow of yellow ribou i i * her hair ami a blue bonnet with a salmon-colored feath er and red flowers on it aud a drab veil over her face then color has the mastery of the woman in tiik pes i u lii l yesterdayeven ing mr ii m worth deputy sheriff of randolph county arrived iu the city with lewis s keen tho sixteen year old boy convicted of arson sentenced to be hanged and whose death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life in the peniten tiary lltdeigh qbst rn i . 'â€¢Â«'â€¢'â€¢â€¢â€¢â€¢. pennington a person notorious in radical politics of alabama during tho rare performance under tlie reign of re construction and well known iu north carolina also lias failed to secure a re-ap poiiitiociit to the gubernatorial honors of dakoto presiilenl hayes has made a mr howard of michigan in tdd kansas jay haw ker < inventor a pittsburg editoi has beenfoundguilty of libel and .-- hteuced to pay a tine of one thousand dollars and be imprisoned foe one year *. and thus the grim ijuestion ot how he was to get through the summer is solved sparrowsaud editors are watched over wilkins ha tpiit the study of i total iy now lb wa trii ht tied iicirh ta ilÂ«-af!t by a bullrusli the ball mhetl right ai him ami tht fence a about veufy-4ivÂ«j yards off salisbury n c march 21 1878

ne larolma watchman vol ix third series n02 mr veuxox n v march 4 1878 ii n watchman 1 wonder if chronic tctiritv of niiad is nut tlie cause of the i n ai*fed uui shrivelled and sluggish con '';;,,:, wc often over-heat others deci k ivch expressing thai there is nothing j n tliu country worth writing or talking â– ... i lie would not think so ifthey could rend iii a letter in the new vork tri lniiie or *'< thserver written by havard j'avloror ireutens prime from the limits nf old rowan ilelieve me these men | u vi charmed you with letters from lauds possessing "â– â€¢â– â€¢â– â€¢â€¢ , * â– â– â€¢*' interest of ours moieover it taylor ami prime could ind nothing i worth writing about it would lie a sure ovidence that their tame 1s letter-writers was completely unde served uv all the laws of literature they kiiouiii in lhat case resign their pens nnd their laurels to somebody else the iniit who cannot indite a beautiful sonnet iiddrcsscd to even a butterfly or a snail tin essayist who cannot enliven you even upon so trite a themo us dogs anil cats iln epistolary correspondent who could not write a letter worth reading from one f the sand-hanks in mid-ocean any writer in short who has not talent suf ficient to writ anything no matter mall ami insignificant in the hea i ns above tht earth beneath or the wa ters under the earth is no writer at all \ ante could take a horse-hack journey through this dull and uninteresting re gion t<>-. monarch and what demosthenes was to ihe athenians in public assemblies he was to the english over their convivial tables he could talk folks into anything binge ibidger was the coleridge of north arolina eminent as be was at the bar his powers in common conversa tion were uot less remarkable thau liis forensic genius meeting you on the street or in bis office at any time when not pr occupied by business it was won derful bow this old man eloquent was listened loin silent awe how fascinating was his discourse on every theme and oc casion how his most learned legal asso ciates paid him the deference of attention as natuialh as if it were his birth-right and how impossible il was for everybody not to accord it to him now ihis menial activity of coleridge an.l itadger was irrepressible and was bound to have vent in lingual expression aw surely as the fountains beneath the hills must burst forth and roll sparkling down thu declivities to gladden the heart i>t man and beast and to clothe their blest shores w ith rich carpets of luxuriant verdure addison was no talker but it was no nn ue trouble for him iii write :; paper for the spectator every few ays than it is for an ordinary man to eat his breakfast the simple and genial style of his essays which will evei he the envy and the pat tern ef young authors soon caused each issue of that pel i.n lical to he awaited with pleasurable and eager expectancy it was equally bought alter and perused by the titled and aristocratic men of leisure ami by the clubs of restless and intellect ual literal ti it created a fashion and a ram for periodical essays and other com petitive enterprises such as the guar dian the itamblor and the adventu rer sprang up us fruit from the seed planted bv ihe pure-minded ami inimita ble essayist dickens came upon the stage of author ship when the public mind was sated with blood-aml-thundcr romances glut led to its till with thu johnsonian style of novel w rit ing ami the ciceronian train ing of sentences when it longed for orig inality both of manner and n atei ial he slaked that feverish thirst for a change from the hidden depths of a fountain so . xhattstless and delicious that wo cannot rqieak ofhis work onlj i t terms of glow - ing enthusiasm and unfeigned respect well do i nineiiiber my first and acci dental acquaintance with this magician an old ragged copy of nicholas xickle bv minus the title-page and //< whose a i nr i do not know .'" yon mav be nre l never ceased enquiring till i found out who wrote that book nor till i had found ami read hi othei works un der ft feeling of hero worship for the great pen-painter of england when he died a dearfriend sat by my bedside wheu i was si>1i uiitl read to nm the account of his decease and i listened with moisten ed eyes anil bated breath for dickens was kin to the whole world a king once beheld from his palace window a fellow lying on the grass in the distance leading a book and laugh ing hooraing and cutting up enongb cu rious antics to excite the suspicion that he was demented summoned into tlie royal presence and asked what book lie was leading lie replied don quixote his demonstrations proved tbat was the book in waa not sent to tbe mad-house how many have read and been affected by that book in tbe same way just thirty years ago 1 first heard my j grandfather read aloud to the family the foreign letters of ireiitthis in the new | york observer since that tlate i have i lead many hundreds ofhis letters â€” some from little hamlets in onr own country â€” till interesting alike would that letter-writers might come to tbe south and excite interest and in fuse life into our dear old land tbe pen is m igh tier than tlie sword e p ii prom the n y observer national museum at tiie smithsonian institution by mlts lucy e sankoud tbe national museum was established by the government in 1842 and consist ed of the specimens collected by the wilkes exploring expedition it was transfer red from the patent office to the care of the smithsonian institution in 1858 it has been increased by all the collections made by the exploring parlies of the war navy treasury and interior departments and those of tbe smithsonian institution a i the close of tbe centennial thirty-four of tl|c governments and colonies there represented sent it their choicest exhibits many series of the geology mettallurgy ethnology aud general resources of those nations arc complete several state ex hibits aud several private collections were also sent the centre building of the smithsonian with its two stories and gal leries and the west wing and gallery is full the basement and huge armory building ate crowded from floor to roof with unboxed specimens prof baird assistant secretary and in part creator of the museum says we have speci mens enough now to cover nine times the space we have and are receiving at the rate often boxes daily for many years the smithson fund was inure than half j spent in caring for the museum it i on ly within the last two years that il has been fully relieved of that expense it is oiÂ»ou and free to the public from 0 a.m to y c m it is urged that the government should provide room for and take care of i it ; separate it from the smithsonian in stitute and make it iti fact tbe national musoum tlie centre building is devoted lo ani inals iuhj*birda and stones u tho ta | ble that runs through the centre is a croc odile from florida 11 feet long and oppo site a walrus from near the north pole of about the same length there too is the i clyptodon with its bony armor !Â» feet long the longest uow found it about one foot a cast of tlie himalayan tortoise i feet wide and 8 long from india now extinct the cast of the skeleton and of the restored gigantic irish elk now ex tinct it seems to have lived ill europe as early as tlie tertiary period cast of a kangaroo lizard 25 feet long hind legs 15 feet forearms 1 feet â€” found in new jer sey tlie cast ofthe macatherluni 15 feet long in a ease arc two musk oxen now extinct in the east but found rarely in northern america a small and hornedao inuil with a dense covering of long silky h lir ; also auroeks or european bison which seem to have existed before the mammoth pliny anil seneca speak of it it would be extinct but the russian government by strict laws preserves a i la i.i there are 50,000 specimens of fish the saw-fish has a body not unlike a shark aboul h feel long but the nose extends 4 feet like the blade ofa sword with strong and trcnchani teeth oil each side this easily saws lisli iu two and indeed severe ly wounds a whale the devil-fish has been considered fabulous but in 1873 one attacked a fishing smack throwing its arms across it the jirms were cut aiul were 3q l'i it jn length the one in the museum baa eight units of rt fept in length w ith suckers on the arm there are 7x!,0(m birds there are eggs not so huge as a pea and one from mada gascir vak inches long a inches iu larg est circumference capacity it pints r i 150 hens eggs there aie 500,000 insects j the suscan meteorite brought from i arizona weighing i t<>0 lbs prof baird ! considers oue ofthe wonders of the mu i . scum in tlie we>t wing tire some of the cen tennial presents the lambeth copy of q ie of the pedestals of the prince albert memorial ; u b dirooting the onward course of america ; live figures of heroic size and a bison ; the term cotta pulpit and iomt copied from palestine covered wiih very finely carved illustrations of our saviour 5 life | a terra copy also of ( jet lisemane from palest juo i each face a study in a glass case is ancient roman and poinpeiian pottery and vases and pitchers from cyprus from gen ccsnola i the second story of the central build ing devoted t.i ethnology ; in which there are 50,000 specimens there is but little of the popular element here nine chi nese figures in costume of the different ranks the haidah indians excel all other aborigines from them a painted house front carved pillars and high and dry on a shelf a dug-out canoe jo ft by 8 ft with two indians in costume from central alaska is a coat of armor plated in chinese coins proving commerce lie twecn the two countries here is a bolt to which columbus was chained in st domingo and a part ofthe first steamboat egypt has some heavy stone cuttings casts of statues to isis and osiris and a a small sphinx also cast of cauopus stone and the best the cast of tain's stone six feet high two and a half broad and top arched it has a trilliugnal inscription ami is more perfect than the rosette stoue japan is very beautifully represented : the stirrup even ofa saddle is in the most elegant work lint this collection marks an era in the world's history it was a present to the president of the united states from the tycoon of japan in isbi when the first japanese embassy came wondering and wondered at there are relics of sir john franklin's and of the frobisher expedition that wintered at froblsher bay several hundred years ago there are many indians in costume and bona fide casts by mills of prisoners of war sit perched on the different cases to the number of 4 perhaps the most in teresting south american object is a hu man head prepared by the jivaro indians peru and held by the owner in much veneration this room is for the scholar it otters material to study man in every age and land here is a liner specimen of archaeological remains of north america â– than in any other museum and of tbe western esquimaux thaji in all other museums in the world ( f the stone age : there are many relics from the grottoes and caves and caverns in tlie line-stone rocks of europe indian graves in the island of omotepee lake nicaragua have i been found between successive volcanic formations aud the rifled content are here there are heaps of extinct shell fish along ! our coast remains of feasts in long gone i ages and iu the jovial time many a knife was lost and here they are the pre historic inhabitants of unaloska of whom the natives have no tradition even the ancient inhabitants of new zealand and australia the pre-hlstoiic age of japan i are all represented by their implements here the stone objects found all over j the earth aud strangely alike are to-day | used by the inhabitants of terra del i fuego and the pai utes archadogists j divide the stone age into palteolitbic old stone and neolithic new stone age in the old stone ages the stones were merely chipped or flaked the chipped series chiefly comprises arrow and spear-heads cutting and scraping tools saws perfora tors and digging implements they were made in this country of bomstonc jasper chalcedony ami quart in europe of flint they are triangular leaf-shaped pointed sharply rough and ugly in the neolithic or new stone age the stone is ground often polished and some times ornamented tho perforators and arrow tips finely and sharply pointed ; there are hammers chisels adzes axes mortars pestles wedges and digging tool all of stone from peru arc oval or horse collar shaped and some of them carved objects weighing four lbs each ; they are puzzles to archaologists in europe and america hut the pipes were tho most remarkable of all sumo of them are so skillfully executed that modern artist find no little difficulty iu reproducing them they are smill but in form of animals birds and human heads tho i national museum has the tincst calumet pipe ever discovered it represents a , bird with a strongly curved beak per j haps an eagle which stands on a high ' pedestal showing in front of it an inverted human face the bowl rises from the back of the bird from the more recent native inhabitants of new zealand but made with these stone implements is a very handsome palm wood box a lady's glove box in size carved in perfect scrolls ami dots used by ladies of rank to keep feathers in 5 also the prow ofa war canoe very well carved herodotus tells us that 1 c 520 a tribe in thrace lived in dwellings built on platforms supported by piles driven in the water and connected to the land by narrow bridges it has been found by recent search that the habit of erecting buildings in the lakes was widely spread over europe probably as protection against wild beats iii the museum is an j idi'td representation of one of those lake i villages find buna fide lacustrine relics of horn and bone and flax and vegetable products as found in the lakes also an ideal representation of an ancient village in cleft of rocks flint horn and bone ' implements and ornaments from the eaves , of dordogue and sabttre also flint imple i ments from other caves nd from deu 1 mark and great britain here too is a cast of th.h bone of con tention the neanderthal skull in the gravelly loam af neanderthal grotto two feet below the surface some work men found and threw out a human skeleton it would have been lost to science had . not prof fuhlrott seen and saved a part of it it had a pant marten by experts ' who decided it to be of an ordinary height very powerful bodily but with slight i brain prof huxley thinks it the most ' ape-like discovered but concludes it is not the connecting link between man and the ape stewart's hotel for women it is now announced that the enterprise started by the late a t stewart tbe ex tensive hotel for working women is to be opened about tho middle of this month it is said to have been the original purpose of mr stewart to build on a large scale tenement houses 011 a plan which be con sidered tin improvement on mr peabody's tenements lie subsequently changed the plan and started the working men's hotel project this magnificent building which cov ers the block on fourth avenue between till and id streets contains 502 sleeping rooms and eight reception rooms besides extensive parlors and dining rooms the whole building is heated with steam lighted with gas made on the premises and watered by an artesian well there is a library of 5000 volumes and every convenience by way of desks and writing materials the building surrounds a large court finely paved in the centre of which will rise a superb fountain forty feet high at the four corners of the fountain curb are bronze candelabra sup porting ornamental lamps it is stated that the regular charge for boarders according to the present plan will be s{.'> has been the best native novelist of the appletons toting fair from the journal ot commerce woow.eaf x c feb 26 1878 editor of the journal of commerce a b and c wish to carry a cylindical log a and h walking abreast tote with a handspike while (' sustains the hind most end query at what point should the two former lift in order to secure a just distribution ofthe weight ? a reaper rcplg â€” if the log is of uniform dimen sions and weight and is exactly horizontal the handspike supported by the two must be just one-third the distance from the end at which they lift to give a uniform load to each of the three mutiny baltimore march â€” tlic en-w of the british hark gypsey queen hence for ncwrv ireland mutinied yesterday morn ing below sandy point alleging that the hark was uuseaworthy capt payne re turned to annapolis roads and signalled the naval academy for assistance when a lieutenant and a squad of marines was sent on board ami the crcw(ten in number including second mate and boatswain were arrested and placed in irons capt payne states that the vessel isseaworthly but the men who had received their ad vance wanted to leave the ship he will ship an additional erew to work the ves sel ami keep the mutinous oats in irons until his arrival in ireland where they will be tried for mutiny horseflesh eating far from declining has so increased in paris that last year 0,ltf horses asses and mules wen cut up for food in the capital then are up ward of sixty horsemeat shops besides many in provincial french cities a comparison of the 10,169 equine animals eaten in 1877 with the 2,192 of 1867 il lustrates the steady progress of hippopha gy st hilaire and his friends would no longer bave to give their horseflesh bou quets for the sake ul introducing this food many people now are glad enough to eat it jekj davis it is no uncommon thing te hear some one speak iu u sligutiug way of jeff davis there were a class i of blind partisans who hated him for different reasons and were always ready during the war to attribute every mishap to him since the war another set of hounds who always hold their noses te the windward and can see bo wisdom Â«â€¢ utility in defending those who bave no rewards to distribute shrug their shoul ders when his name is mentioned aud stand ready to acquiesce iu auy slander of his character rut wo aÂ»k where is a man in polities nt the present day wfcrt has shown such consideration for others as he f our great military cheiftaiu is dead but the statesman patriot and moral hero still lives morganton blade the romans have from time immemo rial wen addicted to playing in the lot tery the number of any distinguished personage upon his death there was a rush at all the royal lottery offices in the city to play the numbers of the late pop â€” 7,32,58,86 seven indicates the dato ofhis death 32 the length of bis pontifi cate 58 the pope himself and 86 the years of his life not ti single one of the above numbers was evolved hy the wheel ; nevertheless it is believed that they will wiu sooner or later and they will contin ue the favorites daring the remainder of the present year the government has ne objection having already reaped an unusually rich harvest from the popular indulgence in this belief coffee was served at the polls iu utica last tuesday the ladies of the various christian temperance association labored unceasingly in every ward serving re fresh ments to candidates and voters â€” now sandwiches now biscuits now cake now pie now crackers aud cheese always cof fee and never whi>key or beer at tho various polling places 5,725 cups of cof fee were handed to politicians aud voters during the day there was good order everywhere and very few oases of in toxication were reported by the olicc this isa temperance measure as novel as it is practical and the bonds continue ut rise and gold continues to lay down gold was to go up with a rush and imuiiis were to come down with a crash ou the passage of the silver bill so said the great new york dailies and gold won't go up and bonds won't come down and the great new york dailies are explaining why the explanations are all vary wei i in their way but the way is abpoi as valuable as the predictions ral ob the hiusboro recorder has presented to the people of the state the following splendid little chapter on our governor the people will respund to its every sen timent with a most hearty â€” amf.xk gov vance commands not only the ap proval but also the affections of the peo ple they love him because he is sincere ly good and honest as well as wise and great while out hunting during a late storm a texan encountered a herd of bewilder ed buffaloes numbering km grown ones and 40 calves the suow lay on the ground to the depth of oue loot he was alone but after several days hard work he secured the entire lot in a natural cor ral in the bend of a stream and proceed ing to the nearest town sold them tu an enterprising dealer for s-'hki the silver bill is not as bad now it is law as it was said to be by its enemies for instance the washington star op posed it and now it says 4 h is probable that whatevei else may happen front the silver hill it will stop the shrinkage of values and especially the downward tendency in real estate women have the mastery of color said sir joshua reynolds but when a woman wears a green skirt with a brown overdress and a purple necktie with a bow of yellow ribou i i * her hair ami a blue bonnet with a salmon-colored feath er and red flowers on it aud a drab veil over her face then color has the mastery of the woman in tiik pes i u lii l yesterdayeven ing mr ii m worth deputy sheriff of randolph county arrived iu the city with lewis s keen tho sixteen year old boy convicted of arson sentenced to be hanged and whose death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life in the peniten tiary lltdeigh qbst rn i . 'â€¢Â«'â€¢'â€¢â€¢â€¢â€¢. pennington a person notorious in radical politics of alabama during tho rare performance under tlie reign of re construction and well known iu north carolina also lias failed to secure a re-ap poiiitiociit to the gubernatorial honors of dakoto presiilenl hayes has made a mr howard of michigan in tdd kansas jay haw ker < inventor a pittsburg editoi has beenfoundguilty of libel and .-- hteuced to pay a tine of one thousand dollars and be imprisoned foe one year *. and thus the grim ijuestion ot how he was to get through the summer is solved sparrowsaud editors are watched over wilkins ha tpiit the study of i total iy now lb wa trii ht tied iicirh ta ilÂ«-af!t by a bullrusli the ball mhetl right ai him ami tht fence a about veufy-4ivÂ«j yards off salisbury n c march 21 1878